Frederick Douglass: “He is a wiser man than I am who can tell how low the moral sentiment of the Republic may yet fall.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.